An Investigation into the Effects of Community of Inquiry in "Philosophy for Children" Program on Creativity of Children

In the present study، the authors investigated the effects of community of inquiry in the «Philosophy for Children» program on creativity of children. 40 children from private schools participated in the study. The participants were selected through cluster sampling procedure. The instrument used for the study was Torrance test of creativity (Form B)، which includes fluency، flexibility، originality، and elaboration subcomponents. The treatment consisted of teaching Morteza Khosronejad''s thinking stories for 12 one-hour sessions in a three month period using community of inquiry practices. The study followed a pretest-posttest design with control group. In order to analyze the data، covariance analysis was used. The results showed a significant difference between the experimental and control group. In other words، the effect of community of inquiry was positive on the experimental group in comparison to the control group. The results approve of the previous research